Posts by steviebuk

How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history

an illustrated history?

One image.

Windows 11 stages a comeback – still miles behind older sibling

Not really

If "staging a come back" means forcing yourself on people (which in other areas is deemed illegal) then lots of people could claim that "I was very popular at work. Yes, I was forcing myself on people but still means I was popular".

Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands return-to-office despite remote work pledge

All quit so we don't have to pay you

That is what these return to work movements are about. Hoping everyone then quits so they don't have to pay them redundancy.

Trump’s tariffs, cuts may well put tech in a chokehold, say analysts

Re: Shaking

For you as you, assuming American, will be the one that pays the tariff. No matter how much you believe in what comes out of the orange idiots old gob, YOU will pay the tariff.

So the bullshit "I'll lower prices really quickly" isn't going to happen. It will put all prices up. The idiot bankrupted two casino.

Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers

Re: openKylin

Our local Chinese takeaway owners are from Malaysia

Google Maps to roll out Trump-approved Denali and Gulf of Mexico rebrands

The Gulf Of 'merica

Is the orange idiots massive gut.

British Museum says ex-contractor 'shut down' IT systems, wreaked havoc

There's your problem

Role Summary

Administrator

Collection Projects and Resources

Full-time (41 hours per week)

Permanent

£28,144 per annum

Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 6 February 2025

Key areas of responsibility:

Health and safety and fire safety compliance, including fire warden duties as appropriate.

So sounds to me they want, on the cheap, a fire safety officer but don't want to pay for that knowledge so you're just an "admin" instead. And/or forcing an admin to be a fire warden when that is supposed to be a voluntary job, you don't force people into it.

Which is odd as they are also hiring for a fire safety specialist who works with the senior fire safety manager. Then why are you forcing the admin to do fire stuff?

As always its a case of the higher up people getting all the money then penny pinching when it gets lower down the chain. No doubt their IT is underfunded. I've seen this before in other museums I did support for.

They'll now hire an expensive consultant to help them "secure our IT better". That consultant will recommend everything the IT team already did but was told "We can't afford that" but now the consultant has said it, "That is a great idea". Been there, seen that as well. Where a consultant asked us what we saw, how it could be made better etc. We told him, told him we'd already made these suggestions before. He took our ideas, palmed them off as his own, they said how amazing he was and started to implement some of those ideas. Shocking, demoralising and REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING.

China's DeepSeek just emitted a free challenger to OpenAI's o1 – here's how to use it on your PC

If its legit

and I'm still unsure, hopefully it lasts long enough that it bankrupts Elon and causes an AI bubble burst.

Censorship

We already knew this because man child Winnie the Pooh doesn't like to be questioned. The other questions you can ask it are local Chinese questions, such as Chinese dishes etc. This will show you if they've just robbed Western code. And yes, that is a thing. I can't remember which model it was but they robbed Western code so when the model was asked to create an image of Duck Soup it created an image of a duck, swimming in soup :)

Robots in schools, care homes next? This UK biz hopes to make that happen

Re: Elderly care facilities are actually understaffed

Money would make a difference because then they can afford to hire more staff. The ones that care, stay.

Erm, just no

"The robotics business is booming, thanks to the hype surrounding artificial intelligence and the demonstrated capabilities of robotaxis like Waymo."

https://youtu.be/Oi4KXpA9hS0?si=9j7KadvLpoATJDQQ

And

https://youtu.be/g_Qq8WoHppg?si=ML-zHHSe0c9jaO0r

And

https://youtu.be/7W-VneUv8Gk?si=H--tdYvFIZc7tfjR

Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet

Re: oh dear

The 50cent didn't like that but also knew who I was talking about :)

oh dear

Its either Winnie the Pooh or I'm So Lonely. Because it looks like the places targeted will be for IP theft. As Winnie the Pooh loves to copy. Has he never seen "Don't copy that floppy".

Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two?

Re: There's an easy solution

Alot of the food is from Mexico so they probably do.

when

Is someone going to just tell Trump to fuck off. Get back with free trade with the EU and let America rot fot 4 years. The idiot voters chose him, they can suffer the high prices he's going to create.

Alex Salmond didn't with the golf course and let Trump fuck over a load of contractors and people that live there.

He should be in fucking prison. Now threatening Greenland. He really needs to fuck off.

Intel pitches modular PC designs to make repairs less painful

Greenwashing

If they gave a shit they wouldn't of caved to Microsoft when they stopped supporting Windows 7 with their newer chips. And as mentioned, have words with Microsoft about the forcing of TPM which is going to create a massive amount of e-waste. Because although people could replace Windows with Linux Mint, the average user isn't going to know how to do that.

Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors

Re: denied his daughter by Lunden Roberts

Hunter. More to the story than the original person mentions because it doesn't fit with their narative and saying "Biden ignored his daughter" is better click bait.

Re: Mischief

If you gave him enough money he'd do it. Having said that he'd do it anyway because, as was said by previous employees in his first term, he had no interest in paper work or morning briefings. So I'm sure you could fall him into signing any old shit.

Because

he's a racist cunt.

https://www.newsweek.com/fair-housing-acts-50th-anniversary-look-back-investigation-trump-familys-879437

Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?

For their wallet

That is all. Its free training data. Normally you'd make them pay for it but what better way of getting it for free by forcing it on devices or an OS so people can't avoid it.

Trump 'waved a white flag to Chinese hackers' as Homeland Security axed cyber advisory boards

The orange idiot is clueless and so are his staff. He's just opening the flood gates to be breached more and more. Lets hope they go after his personal servers. His server will consist of these he'll have downloaded

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPrBO9ljSjVQ5lMn4SFoi8xBOCvOvUyMF&si=18ncnxiI0LLnhzm0

EU demands a peek under the hood of X's recommendation algorithms

He'll do a tiktok as he mentioend before

He'll just say "I'll just cut off the EU from Twitter." and because people like to bend over, they'll let him get away with it. However, that probably won't work now as the likes of Bluesky exist. A decentrialised Twitter alternative that you can even host yourself.

Just like tiktok. Trump put in place the ban. The update from Biden meant just meant the app was to be removed from the Play store and Apple store, not a full ban. But most don't realise this. To prove a point Bytedance shut the servers down to cause the back lash and allow Trump to been seen as the white knight. And because of his supporters are brain washed, they don't see this.

Re: Recommendation algorithms

Its what the people in the open source world try to create. Its why Immich was created because the guys wife didn't want to pay for Google photos anymore. It doesn't suck up your data, you can self host it and its just amazing. Its possible and helped more if people pay for it.

The bell tolls for TikTok as lifelines to avoid January 19 US ban vanish

Re: It won't

"On Aug. 6, 2020, Trump sign ed an executive order seeking to ban TikTok after 45 days. "

and there we have it

It was the orange idiots idea to ban tiktok in 2020. His supporters will deny this despite him saying it on video.

Now he's making himself look good by delaying the ban. He'll do a deal with the CCP, much like in his first term where his daughter was allowed patents in China. Oddly, considering China doesn't honor patents.

He'll try and get a deal where his family will own half of tiktok and he'll gift it to one of his sons. After all, he'll now have access to all the classified documents again that he can sell.

Sadly, he's become the king of grifters helped along by a large chunk of idiot Americans that voted for him. Even the ones he's now going to deport.

It already happens. Why does TikTok need your phones height data?

Re: Questions of national security

Its not true, its what the CCP want you to think is true.

Re: Questions of national security

Those platforms are banned in China. I think the difference is, if you call Trump a cockend on those platforms, despite the government seeing it, the goon squad won't be sent to your door to make you disappear. However, in China this happens. Although with Trumps second term he might try to make it happen.

In China they started using the term Winnie the Pooh to reference Xi cause he looks like him. This was to get around censors. When the CCP realised, all Winnie the Pooh references were banned. If you start calling Trump a big orange twat, on the western apps, they won't ban the term "big orange twat".

If your kid dies at school in China, the CCP doesn't what anyone to know anything and the Chinese people have had enough.

https://youtu.be/pnmfhygGGsw?si=CMqieBEfO9UVzOvH

It won't

"There is some whispering TikTok is otherwise set to simply cut off access to US users come Sunday." TikTok is a clear and clever CCP syop app. You make it so popular that anyone that mentions its a syop app is deemed "a conspiracy theorist". I hate conspiracies but its clear TikTok is a syop app. Its banned in China for a reason, all Western apps are banned in China, which is their right. You see no Western government going mental over western apps being banned. Yet the CCP, who claimed they have no involvment in TikTok getting massively bent out of shape when a ban warning appeared.

Its not even a ban, it will just be removed from the Apple store and Play store. The "We'll just turn the servers off for US residents" is an attempt to get US voters to argue it should stay. They won't do it because its so valuable to the CCP with all the devices its already installed on.

Anyway, its all dead now because Biden has decided to let Trump decide. If China give him enough money he'll allow it to stay or allow Musk to buy it. Musk is in bed with China because of his factories over there. So it will all just carry on as normal. The snooping will continue under the cover of Musk owning it.

The 50 cents lurk around these parts so expect downvotes.

CISA: Wow, that election had a lot of foreign trolling. Trump's Homeland Sec pick: And that's none of your concern

terrorists

Are gonna have a field day for four years with all the idiots in charge.

Medusa ransomware group claims attack on UK's Gateshead Council

Re: ? do they understand UK councils

And then pay the consultant £600k

? do they understand UK councils

Do they not understand, pretty much most UK councils have no money. So are never going to cough up £600k.

In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy

He could of done

something about it during his 4 years but didn't. Bernie Saunders has been warning about Oligarchy since 1993 but no one was interesting in stopping Trump. The GOP have just seen his power and decided to drop all their morals and grab on. Hoping that while he's around they can exploit the power. Once Trump The Felon has gone, watch the GOP implode (hopefully they implode before his 4 years are up).

Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog

Re: Age verification

This was in regards to the pay as you go or "burner phones".

Re: Age verification

Because they make their money from the dealers, kidnappers, terroists, money launders, mob, the list goes on, so they also don't want that bit regulated :)

SpaceX launches 2 lunar landers on path to the Moon

Re: Obligatory beer

I see the Kerbal reference. Shame about Kerbal Space Program 2.

Google's ex-CEO U-turns after saying staff 'going home early' killed winning

Re: What he said, what he meant

And the ability to wake up and start work straight away instead of having to waste time in the commute.

Your cert appears to be invalid.

He's

always been a cunt Eric Schmidt has. They are all for "Work hard, work long hours and you'll be succesful". No, they'll just make you lots of money then once you're done with them you'll drop them. THAT is the issue. You may want to do the long hours etc to get rich, but its no motivation when you know you're doing all those long hours to make someone else rich.

Its why Elon loves the H-1B visa because it means he can become even more rich on the backs of others but pay them a LOT less than he'd have to pay America workers. And also knows if those H-1B visa workers don't like it, they'll loose their visa and will have to go back home, so he knows they'll just keep their mouth shut. He then knows he can make them do whatever he wants, even if it means working long hours, 7 days a week.

They are all cunts (the execs, not the H-1B visa workers)

Oh, Deere! FTC sues tractor maker, alleging decades of monopolized repairs

It won't

"though whether the lawsuit will survive the pending presidential transition remains to be seen. "

Trump loves giving companies the ability to do whatever shitty thing they want to do.

UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation

Re: Buying into the top of a bubble

Yep and the chat bots currently, before all the bollocks LLMs came about and the voice ones, I always swear at until they put me through to an actual person.

Fools

incharge. Then I give my advice and am ignored. A lowely, low paid engineer. The overpaid consultant comes along, says what they want to hear and gets the praise. We're all still there in the corner muttering "But this is going to take a MASSIVE amount of energy the UK doesn't have and you're supposed to be going green. The consultant doesn't actually know what they are talking about they just know how to sell their shit so they get paid".

Years later "We've learned lessons from the failure of the AI implementation. We are greatful for all the work our consultant has done but they have no moved on. What was that? Did your engineers warn you? Erm...we have other engineers?"

Cunts.

Re: AI is mostly bullshit

True, the only use for ChatGPT is to give me a very rough idea of how to do a powershell script (knowing full well it will be mostly wrong) but at least ChatGPT doesn't insult me for asking unlike StackOverflow.

The only other 2 uses is commenting code when lazy and telling me what a bit of code actually does because I, again, don't want to be insulted by the folks of StackOverflow.

But, the government don't appear to understand how power hungry these LLMs are. Its OK, idiot Starmer might give China back the building of the nuclear power station. China def won't put in a backdoor for the time it all goes to shit so they can make the reactor go pop. They def haven't already done this (as has been seen in the news) with America's infrastructure.

Problem is, the Tories put us in that hole. Much like Trump, they ran up a MASSIVE debt and hid it from everyone.

They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file

I would like to see

Professor Brailsford do a talk on this on computerphile. All his PDF talks have been interesting as he was around for the birth of it all. Listening to his chats on fonts when they were a new thing and just being able to print special characters, finally, like chess pieces. Worth a watch.

Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week

Re: speech is apparently free

I'm suprised Greenland even allowed Drumpf Junior to land, instead they should of said "No, fuck off".

Short-lived bling, dumb smart things, and more: The worst in show from CES 2025

Re: China!

Because China does = bad. Not the people, most in China are pleasant apart from the nationalist. But the CCP is bad. World War 2 happened a long time ago now, yet the CCP still teach their kids (its taught in schools) that the Japanese are bad and to hate them. Just look up the Uyghurs people and see the concentration camps they've been put in. Any Chinese company HAS to report to the CCP. So yes, its very well possible tp-link have been compromised specifically for the CCP.

Lets take Twitter for example (yes its shit but before the great cock called Elon owned it). Its been banned in China forever, does the US government shout "China, stop causing trouble. Unban Twitter" no. Because despite the CCP being cunts, its their right to ban it. But, when TikTok is threaten with a ban, TikTok that the CCP say they have no involvement with, the CCP oddly went mental over this. Could this possibly be because they use it as their syop app? Yes, it clearly is, considering the data it slurps. What better way to spy on other nations. Making a popular app that seems like any other social media app. Use that app to cause disinformation and infighting. That's the way you destroy a country, let them fight each other. Its currently working in America, the fact a large amount of idiots voted in a rapist and felon back into the Whitehouse.

I miss the days

where our TV in the back room in the house I grew up in broke. Family friends husband came over. Put the TV on the floor, opened its back. Inside the cover was the schematic printed on the case! He traced the fault, repaired it, TV continued to work for years. Now, they don't last as long and are made purposely difficult to repair or refusing to allow access to schematics. So that you bin it and buy their new latest one.

Sadly, companies have gotten away with this due to customers. If we all, collectively, said "Fuck off" and stopped buying, it wouldn't of happened.

Apple tried it with the Apple 2. Wozniak wanted it upgradable, Steve Jobs didn't. Wozniak won the arguement and lucky for Jobs he did. Apple kept afloat due to the Apple 2 sales because it was upgradable. Almost all of Steve Jobs personal ideas failed.

Now, because people who aren't tech savy just accept the shit and carrying on buying, companies know they can get away with it.

Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer

Frantone

Fran from franlabs on YouTube made the Frantone many years ago which apparently is really popular. But unforunately she said its not viable to hand make them anymore as she used to do. Maybe she could do kits instead and everyone put them together themselves. But I think even that's not viable for her as she mentioned, a while ago now, hand making the circuitboard was expensive.

http://www.frantone.com/

for anyone interested.